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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

I was an early employee at PayPal and back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, and we ended up taking a fairly significant amount of strategic investment (tens of millions of $) from various banks in the US, Europe, and Asia. All things being equal, seed and early stage startups are not usually well suited to take strategic investments.

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Strategic Investors Post-Money Valuation Seed Stage Cofounder 120
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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal. But more spend = more viral opps = more revenue down the road. >50% of our revenue in now viral. In my first company I had to raise money in April 2001 or die. I believe this is wrong.

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